The massacre in the Sudanese city has left more than 2,000 civilians dead and their blood soaking into the sand. Militia fighters defending El Fasher alongside government troops accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of “heinous crimes against innocent civilians,” saying the dead were mostly women, children, and the elderly.

Emerging evidence of systematic killings in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher have prompted human rights and aid activists to describe the civil war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the military as a "continuation of the Darfur genocide".

Rights groups say the RSF paramilitary group committed mass atrocities as it seized the besieged city in North Darfur.